Crossword for Tue, 19/Sep/2017

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Across
1: Word on an octagon

5: Moved furtively

10: Finder's cries

14: Take it easy

15: Eagle's claw

16: Confront

17: Subordinate staffer

18: Grace period?

20: Fabric fold

22: Chocolate source

23: Ran in front

24: Vague perception

25: Tabu emissions

27: Preserve, in a way

31: Mercury, for one

34: Wade across

37: A white one is small

38: Give, as time

39: Fireman's tool

40: Comparatively calm

42: Dauphin's denial

43: Lot, to Abraham

45: Dot follower

46: Precious stones

47: Bun net

48: Metallic finish

50: Diver's gear

52: Not suitable

56: Suffers from

58: Line dance

61: Exclude

62: Holmes mantra, and a hint to this puzzle's theme

65: Artifice

66: Give the slip to

67: Spirit in a bottle

68: Like burnt briquettes

69: Pain in the neck

70: Wind instrument

71: Meadows
Down
1: Reactions to fresh remarks, maybe

2: Linen fabric

3: In the past

4: Gratified

5: Avg.

6: Secular

7: Arm bone

8: Sarge, e.g.

9: Work with the hands

10: Sternward

11: Pellet of precipitation

12: Very top

13: Watermelon beginning

19: Boarding house occupant

21: President pro ___

26: Gun in the garage

28: Botched up

29: Tune

30: Bloodsucker

32: Bit to split

33: It may zoom in or out

34: Current producers

35: Whom the yoke's on?

36: Take back due to nonpayment

38: Test-driver's car

40: Inveigle

41: Easter preceder?

44: Ad ___ committee

46: Not particular

48: Easy gallop

49: Strong coffee, slangily

51: Large African antelope

53: Obloquy

54: Turkish bigwig

55: Low cards

56: Household staff

57: Burn soother

59: The Sharks or the Jets

60: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

63: Came across

64: Craving




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